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October: Reading Classical Music

Read modern words about vintage sounds with these books about classical music. From the history of opera to Black and women composers to contemporary minimalism like Philip Glass and John Adams, there is something on this list for every ear.

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  • Declassified

    a Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical Music

    Warsaw-Fan Rauch, Arianna,
    Book, 2022New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — 781.17
  • Digging

    the Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

    Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014
    Book, 2009Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. — 780.89 BARAKA
  • The Rest Is Noise

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    Ross, Alex, 1968-
    Book, 2007New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. — 780.904 ROSS
  • Sounds and Sweet Airs

    the Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    Beer, Anna R., 1964-
    Book, 2016London, England : Oneworld, 2016. — 780.922 BEER
  • Book, 2015New York : Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] — B GLASS
  • Book, 1977New York : Dodd, Mead, c1977. — 780.922 ABDUL
  • Hallelujah Junction

    Composing An American Life

    Adams, John, 1947-
    Paperback, 2009New York : Picador, 2009. — B ADAMS
  • Book, 2023New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 780.92 SCHOENBERG
  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    Ross, Alex, 1968-
    Book, 2020New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — 782.1092 WAGNER
  • Cosima Wagner

    the Lady of Bayreuth

    Hilmes, Oliver
    Book, 2010New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010. — B WAGNER
  • Bach

    Music in the Castle of Heaven

    Gardiner, John Eliot
    Book, 2013New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. — 780.92 BACH
  • Beethoven

    the Universal Composer

    Morris, Edmund
    Book, 2005New York : Atlas Books/HarperCollins, c2005. — B BEETHOVEN
  • Mahler

    His Life, Work and World

    Book, 1991New York : Thames and Hudson, c1991. — 780.92 MAHLER
  • Hildegard of Bingen

    Scientist, Composer, Healer, & Saint

    Demi,
    eBook, 2019[United States] : World Wisdom, 2019. — EBOOK
  • Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius

    From Fin-de-siecle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday

    Monson, Karen
    Book, 1983Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1983. — B Mahler